Supporting Local Bolsters Michigan’s Small Businesses and Communities

Whether it’s the holiday shopping season or another beautiful Pure Michigan summer, supporting local is always in style.

Support for Michigan’s LGBTQ+-Owned Small Businesses

LGBTQ+ businesses gain the tools for growth through MEDC’s Pure Michigan Business Connect resources

Spotlight: Food and Beverage Pitch Competition in Muskegon

The MEDC’s Regional Prosperity and Pure Michigan Business Connect teams hosted the 231 Food & Beverage Pitch Challenge in Muskegon to help businesses amplify their products

Michigan’s Small Businesses Create Big Impact

The annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards Gala gives Michigan’s small business owners the red carpet treatment and highlights their impact across the state

Celebrating the Season and Supporting Local | Livestream

With the holiday shopping and travel season underway, Tom Daldin of Under the Radar Michigan joined Dave Lorenz of Travel Michigan and Cathleen Edgerly of Downtown Lansing, Inc. for a live conversation on Tuesday, Nov. 22 to discuss holiday traditions and celebrations across Michigan, and offer suggestions for how to support local businesses when shopping, dining and traveling in Michigan communities this holiday season and beyond.

MEDC Helps Small Businesses Build Strategic Connections Around the World

MEDC’s Pure Michigan Business Connect (PMBC) is a free service that brings small- to medium-sized Michigan businesses together with local, national and global companies for supply chain sourcing opportunities. This demand-driven, multi-billion-dollar public/private initiative developed by the MEDC in 2011 is structured to make connections within all industries.

ShoreWaves

Innovative start-up provides wireless internet to those “off the beaten path”

Rocket Fiber

Technological start-up revolutionizes internet speed and security

SPLT

A new way to carpool: Detroit based company changes the way employees commute

Inventev

Detroit based company creates a crossover technology between energy space and automotive space